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7/30/2014 (2 months ago)
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Teenagers down under in Australia are using a popular smartphone app, called Tinder to arrange for sexual encounters with strangers. Although the application has an age restriction of 13 years and older, Tinder lets users to "like" or "pass" on fellow users' profiles based on their picture. The app also opens the possibility to chat via the app.
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7/30/2014 (2 months ago)
Published in Asia Pacific
Keywords: Tinder, Australia, app, Smartphone, illicit sex
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Tinder app according to one source, was being used by "teens to find other teens who are interested in getting physical with no emotional connection," a Melbourne teenager, who attends a private school speaking on the condition of anonymity said.
"Every person I know who has used Tinder has been asked for sex," the 16-year-old said. She also said she knew teenagers as young as 15 who were using the app.
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"All the girls I know have spoken to mainly older guys, around one or two years older. And the guys speak to anyone they can.
"It starts off with general chit-chat usually, and then it slips into talking purely about sex and physical stuff and then often they eventually arrange to meet up."
Another local teenager said she joined Tinder when she was 17 and was "always" asked for sex via the app. "A lot of teenagers use Tinder as a way to get sex," the now 18-year-old said.
"There's a lot of people locally on Tinder, like from the next suburb away, or the western suburbs."
Naturally, it is "neither safe nor desirable" for teenagers to use apps to facilitate sex with strangers. According to La Trobe university professor Anne Mitchell, author of the "National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health" report, says
"I think it is quite inappropriate for 13-year-olds to have access to such an app but these things are very hard to police," Mitchell said.
A Tinder spokeswoman said seven percent of Tinder users globally were 13 to 17 years old but could not provide exact figures for Australia. To "protect young users" aged 13 to 17, they can only connect with other users in that same age range, the spokeswoman said.
The fly in the ointment with this safety procedure is that there appears to be nothing stopping users from changing their date of birth on their Facebook account, which Tinder requires to create a profile, before registering.
A 40-year-old Facebook user could change their date of birth to the year 2000, register for Tinder and misrepresent themselves as a 13-year-old.
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This week at LooseKeys Jake is ready to take over the world one pumpkin beer at a time.
Judging recently completed for the 9th Annual W³ Awards and I'm extremely excited that LooseKeys has won two Gold W³ Awards and six Silver W³ Awards.
The 3D animated piece for Appliance Repair Guys took two Gold awards! Appliance Repair Guys won in the "Branded Content: Business to Consumer" category and the "Visual Effects/Motion Graphics" category.
Signal, Quad and Joomag received the other six awards. Signal won in the "Branded Content: Business to Business" category and the "Web Video - Animation" category. Quad, our lovable zombie video won in the "Branded Content: Business to Consumer" category and the "Web Video - Animation" category. Finally, Joomag won in the "Video Design" category and the "Visual Effects/Motion Graphics" category.
Thank you to everyone who worked on making these spots great!
It's Friday and we're getting down with some pizza!
This week at LooseKeys we got the chance to check out New York Fashion Week.
I carry around everything I think I might ever need to use on a daily basis in my bag. I keep it in my bag at all times whether I'm traveling or not, I have my bag with me everyday on my bike commute into the office. For everyday use it may seem a bid overboard especially since I only work a mile or so from my house. I prefer to have everything I "might" ever need with me just in case I want it and that's the same for when I'm traveling. I've been traveling a good deal lately so luckily my bag is pretty much already packed and ready to go at any given time. The common theme with all the gadgets in my bag is to always be prepared.
15' MacBook
I tried using a smaller Macbook Air for awhile when I traveled but it never really worked out. Although the form factor was great, many times something would come up and I'd end up wishing I had the larger screen or computing power to handle it. This 15' MacBook is also the same computer I work on when I'm at home or off working at a coffee shop. For the most part, the machine is lightweight and has everything I might ever need installed on it. Depending on where I'm working or if I'm traveling for work, I also may have my Wacom Intuos 3 with me but when you're on and off planes, it's a bit much.
iPad Mini
I recently picked up an iPad Mini for a few reasons. One was for Hearthstone and also because there is a good chance my phone will die and I'll switch over to the iPad to keep up on email and manage my social media accounts. Having LTE on this device has really saved me a couple times. I'll also pull it out for notes or shot lists if we're on a shoot.
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Even with the iPad Mini I'm still a huge fan of my Nexus 7. I typically use this for reading the news and blog sites when I can find some wifi. Holding it for reading is much more comfortable than the iPad Mini. On the plane I'll pull out the Nexus 7 to read comic books. I've been picking up a bunch of different comics and graphic novels on Comixology and I make sure this device stays synced with that.
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Typically this device is in my pocket and is my go-to for everything. Of course when I'm traveling, I make sure I also have a battery backup for the phone handy but I don't need that day to day.
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The 3DS has been my go-to for mobile entertainment lately. It helps that Chas Fries and I started a podcast about mobile games so there is always something I'm playing as "homework" for the show. I also love to keep this in my bag for the random street pass features I might stumble on. I try to carry a couple extra games with me but I mainly stick to one like Pokemon. And then there's the few games I've downloaded from the eStore like Shovel Knight and Azure Striker Gunvolt.
Sadly this doesn't get used that often but when I do remember to pull it out either to listen to music in the hotel room or for a conference call a few of us might be on, it's a handy device to have around.
Done with the internet for the day or if I've really been pulled into a new book, I have the kindle with me. Depending on the length of a flight and if I don't just want to sleep, I'll pull the kindle out for a good portion of the flight.
There are also some notebooks for doodles and notes, random cables, business cards and LooseKeys stickers. Yes, it's a bit much to have with me everyday and some of these devices could me combined or replaced by the other but for me at this moment this is working and it's not too crazy, heavy to lug around.
I'm gone for a couple days and the work at LooseKeys has really piled up.
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I'm a bit jealous of the people that can stay reasonably focused all day when they are working on something. My focus is often all over the place, jumping from one project to another, dealing with clients and issues that arise. For the most part, that's just the day to day tribulations of being the boss.
I can handle the split focus alright but for me the worst distraction is when new projects come in or when new ideas come to me. I love new ideas. They are shiny, exciting, and fun! I can't wait to get started on new projects or ideas when they come in. Those old projects or jobs become boring in comparison to the shiny new jobs. I'll often get obsessed about something new and everything else gets pushed to the side. Really this is the worst way to work and I'm doing my best to not get distracted by the shiny new stuff.
To really succeed and get things done, you have to stick to something, plug away at it and finish it before moving on. Good ideas take time. Great ideas take even more time.
Coming up with new ideas isn't something I'm lacking but what I'm trying to do is ask myself "is this the best use of my time," "could I finish something else rather than starting something new?" Typically the answer will always be yes, so an even better question is "Can I afford that time investment and will it impact what else I'm working on." This allows me to jump on this new idea if everything else is in a good place and something else won't suffer.
I'll still get distracted often, that's not going to stop but reigning it in is key. Also, I'm slowly learning how not to be pulled away towards that shiny new project until after my old projects are completed or I have the time to start something new and shiny.
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I spend a good amount of time thinking about LooseKeys and the path the business is on. It's the last thing that I think about before I go to bed and it has become the first thing I do when I wake up. Why? Because there isn't a map for how this should go, there's no manual that says, "on day 543 you do this to grow your business". If there was a guidebook, I don't think building LooseKeys would be quite as exciting. LooseKeys would be a tad boring if we were just copying and following what someone else did before us. We're changing and adapting according to what situations, projects & clients require.
There are often forks in the road that lead us down a path that might seem ill-advised or difficult but as long as you are open to where that path may take you, there is no reason to give up and turn back.
In a recent Pokemon episode I watched, Ash Ketchum had a great line "A Pokemon master stays on course, no matter what the challenge." It's one of those lines that just rings true with me. We don't need a map because where LooseKeys is going there are no roads. No, no in all seriousness there isn't a roadmap because this is a new trail we are blazing and the adventure is just getting started. From the outside it can look like myself or the team made a wrong turn but really we're just open to seeing what comes our way.
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KINGSTON тАФ While her teammates arrived at Shea High to prepare for its trip to the University of Rhode Island's Keaney Gym to battle Mount Pleasant for the R.I. Division III Tournament title on Saturday morning, and again on the team bus, senior co-captain Kendra Vieira reminded the troops of three core philosophies to live by.
тАЬFirst, I told them that it's not over 'til it's over,тАЭ she stated. тАЬSecond, I said, no matter what happens, we're going to walk out of there with our heads held high. And, third, we had to win it for 'Tati' (aka junior setter Itati DeBarros.) Today's her 16th birthday, and we wanted her to celebrate it with a state championship.тАЭ
The ever-so-ready Raiders more than obliged. Vieira led her squad in kills with 12 and DeBarros manufactured a season-high 29 assists as fourth-seeded Shea stunned the third-ranked Kilties, 3-0, before perhaps 100 fans at Keaney.
Just 16 days before, on Oct. 24, head coach Chris Daily's crew had played horribly in a 3-0 loss to MP at тАЬThe Cage.тАЭ In fact, the Raiders also dropped a 3-2 decision to their тАЬfinals' foeтАЭ on Sept. 25.
тАЬWe had some tough opponents toward the end of the season, and one of them was Johnston on the road,тАЭ Daily noted while her players hugged and hollered behind her. тАЬWe ended up winning that match, but then we lost the next three to finish the year.
тАЬI think it was more of a mental lapse than anything,тАЭ she added. тАЬI think the girls were thinking ahead before the playoffs had even started. But then we played really well against (top-ranked) Johnston (in Thursday night's semifinal, a 3-1 win, at the Panthers' home venue), and played even better (Saturday).
тАЬAs far as I'm concerned, it all came down to teamwork. The kids all did their jobs, and everyone contributed, everyone communicated. I can't tell you how proud I am of all of them.тАЭ
Stated Athletic Director Ray McGee while Rhode Island Interscholastic League Director of Girls' Volleyball handed out the individual gold medals to the new state champs: тАЬThey just peaked at the right time. You know, they lost the final three matches of the season, but nobody hung their heads. I give them a lot of credit.
тАЬShea was down in volleyball for a lot of years, but that's because of the division we were playing in,тАЭ he continued. тАЬWe were playing in Division II, and we were a relatively new program facing teams who had been around a long time. We and some other schools тАУ like Central, Mount Pleasant and Hope тАУ kept fighting for the Interscholastic League) to reinstate D-III. This is the first year they went back to it, and look what happens.
тАЬIt turns out, this was a very competitive division all season long. I'm just happy for the kids. This is a great group of girls.тАЭ
With the triumph, the Raiders not only finished its season at 13-6 (10-6 in league), but also snatched its first state volleyball crown since 2006.
Still, it didn't come easy, as the Kilties fought tooth-and-nail in the initial game. They actually led, 24-23, on senior outside hitter Kunem Piseth's serve, but Vieira slammed a kill to knot it, then served up an ace before an unforced error gave Shea the 26-24 decision.
тАЬAfter that first one, our confidence grew a lot,тАЭ Vieira claimed. тАЬThat's when we started thinking we could win the whole match.тАЭ
The second game saw the two combatants force six ties and four lead changes. MP had led 10-9, but a Vieira spike knotted it for the last time at 10-all, and senior Jennifer DaSilva served up three straight points to give the Pawtucketers a 13-10 advantage.
With junior Nancy Lee serving, the Kilties sliced their deficit to 16-15, but sophomore Carol Rodriguez drilled a kill down the line, then notched four service points as Shea cushioned its lead to 21-15.
Following a serve into the net, senior co-captain Alliyah Phin recorded a trio of her own to cut it to 22-19, but an unforced miscue gave the serve back to the Raiders.
Senior Iussara Ferreira served the penultimate point, one in which senior Cassandra Xiong couldn't handle a dig, but junior Maria Ogundolani mustered a dink to bring MP back to 24-20.
Shea snatched the second, 25-20, when officials whistled Piseth for touching the net.
The Kilties mustered the first point in the third game when DeBarros' spike failed to clear that net, but the Raiders immediately caught fire. With senior co-captain Taylah Logan stationed at the service line,
Shea rattled off 10 straight points тАУ seven of them on unforced errors тАУ to gain a 11-1 cushion, and that caused MP head coach Ka Men to call a timeout.
It worked wonders, as his group stopped unraveling and got itself back into the match, cutting the lead to 14-7.
Senior co-captain Vannada Prak assembled a service string of three straight points, and Piseth did the same to get the Kilties back within four at 18-14.
At 20-15, after Logan registered a dink off a block, that same girl who had started the game with 10 consecutive points started anew. She ripped an ace and chipped in two more before a Shea unforced miscue gave it back to MP at 23-16. On Carol Rodriguez' serve, the referees called Phin for a carry, then posted match point on a rocket off a flinching Kiltie.
Seconds later, the lone two Raiders on the bench, not to mention Daily and assistant Carl McCurdy, flocked to the Keaney floor to celebrate.
тАЬI can't say enough about Taylah,тАЭ Daily grinned later of her senior left-side hitter, who had amazingly recorded 13 service points in the last game alone. тАЬHer serve was just awesome.
тАЬI kept telling the girls, 'You can win this, but you have to do it for yourselves,'тАЭ she added. тАЬI told them not to do it for me, or thee fans, but just for the eight girls on this team.тАЭ
She paused, then chuckled, тАЬThey gave me a lot of headaches along the way. I know that, sometimes, I can be tough on them, but there were a lot of laughs, too.тАЭ
Then there was the тАЬBirthday GirlтАЭ.
тАЬThe thing about this team is that we we're more like a family,тАЭ DeBarros smiled. тАЬThe last couple of years, we weren't that way. We'd go to practice or games and that's it; we never hung around with each other. This season, we'd eat lunch together, go bowling and talk on the phone. We became much closer, more tight.
тАЬThat's a big reason why we won this.тАЭ
She was asked if тАЬSweet 16тАЭ could've been much much sweeter?
Her response: тАЬNo way!тАЭ


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Did the junk mail phenomenon always exist? Or is it relatively new? What I have in mind is the way that an entire category of communication becomes broken because it is overused by semi or total crooks shouting rubbish at you, thus overwhelming the actual human persons sending you individually useful messages. Even real messages just sound like arseholes yelling at you. The signal-to-noise ratio becomes so stupid that eventually, no genuine signals get through.
A few days ago, I received an email from something called Macmillan Distribution (MDL). A package was due. There were various buttons for me to press so that I could track the package, or tell them where else to deliver it, or some such thing. I immediately assumed that this was an industrialised garbage message, the purpose of which was for me to tell crooks about myself by pressing one of the buttons. Having received many junk messages just like this in the recent past, I assumed that this one was similarly fraudulent.
I noted that they had my name and address, and this might have supplied me with the clue that this was actually a genuine message about a genuine delivery, from a genuine enterprise, with buttons for me to press which actually did what they said they would do. But instead, I merely thought: oh dear, now the international conglomeration of bastard junk emailer fraudsters knows my name and address. Oh well, more crap to delete.
But this morning, the package actually arrived, at a time that the emails had been referring to. The emails from Macmillan Distribution (MDL) (there were three emails in total) had all been genuine. It was a book that I had already paid for and wanted to read. So, good.
The actual delivery was a mess. Some arsehole just smacked the door of my flat (sounding like when the cleaners vacuum the landings and bang their machines into our doors), and then just stuffed the package through my mail flap (which very luckily was big enough). No electronic buzzing from outside and downstairs, to get my attention while I slumbered, like a proper delivery. And how the hell did this arsehole contrive to get through the downstairs front door in the first place? (We've had robberies from people claiming to be delivering things, but actually hoovering up the deliveries of others from our (unlocked and wide open) cubby holes.) So, very unsatisfactory, as home deliveries so often are. But, the thing itself did arrive, which means the delivery scored one out of one on the one measure that really counts.
And, as I say, those emails were all for real.
No doubt there are various twenty first century, social media like methods that I could have used to track this parcel and its delivery, methods which screen out junk and preserve a benign signal-to-noise ratio. Maybe, any decade now, I will have to get with the twenty first century and dump email completely.
I vividly recall when having email first became a necessity, when you suddenly started getting dirty looks at parties if you didn't have it. And when fax numbers ceased mattering. (Remember those?)
As of now, regular twenty first century people half my age still seem to do email, or so it says on those little cards they give me. But how long will this last?
More about package delivering from 6k, here. "Wumdrop" sounds sort of like Uber, only for things.
There I was, lying in the bath, listening to Radio 3. Some music had ended, and I was now being subjected to a programme which I do not usually listen to, called Words and Music. And I heard the actor Jim Broadbent saying these words, by Michel de Montaigne:
I take the first subject that chance offers. They are all equally good to me. And I never plan to develop them completely. For I do not see the whole of anything. (Nor do those who promise to show it to us.) Of a hundred members and faces that each thing has, I take one, sometimes only to lick it, sometimes to brush the surface, sometimes to pinch it to the bone. I give it a stab, not as wide, but as deep as I know how. And most often, I like to take them from some unaccustomed point of view. Scattering a word here, there another, samples separated from their context, dispersed, without a plan and without a promise, I am not bound to make something of them, or to adhere to them myself, without varying when I please, and giving myself up to doubt and uncertainty, and my ruling quality, which is ignorance.
Sounds like a blogger, doesn't he? A blogger, that is to say, like me. Especially where he says "without a promise". I keep saying that. Above all there is that "this is what it is and if you don't like it you know just what you can do about it" vibe that so many bloggers give off. With Montaigne, we are arriving at that first moment in history when writing and publishing new stuff had become easy. Not as easy as it is when you blog, but a whole lot easier than it had been.
I transcribed the above quote from Broadbent's reading of it. The punctuation is somewhat uncertain, and at one point assertively creative on my part. I added some brackets, around what is clearly a diversion from his main line of thought to which he immediately returns. It's a sideswipe at others and it is then forgotten.
Such is the wonder that is the internet that I had little difficulty in tracking down the quote. It is near the beginning of Montaigne's essay entitled "Of Democritus and Heraclitus", in volume three of his essays.
The BBC used a more recent translation, which I much prefer the sound of, it being less antique and long-winded. And if Montaigne himself was also antique and long-winded, then I still prefer intelligibility to stylistic accuracy.
LATER: More about Montaigne, also emphasising the modern social media angle, here.
I sympathise with whoever wrote this:
West Brom can hardly believe their luck. Being denied a win at the death by Manchester United is one thing, but having teased a previously woeful Marouane Fellaini back to life must really does takes the biscuit.
"Must really does takes the biscuit." I reckon he was choosing between, not two, but three different ways of saying what he was saying, but managed to combine all three.
This is the kind of mistake that can only happen with a computer. If you were merely writing, or typing with an old school typewriter, there is no way you would have put that.
When I perpetrate something like that, and I frequently do, and if I later spot the mistake, I then allow myself to correct it, no matter how long ago I made the mistake. Is this wrong? My blog, my rules.
A subsection of Sod's Law states that whenever you mention someone else's mistake in something you say on the www, you will make a similar sort of error yourself. If I do this in this posting, I will not correct my error, but will add something "LATER", in which I identify my error.
Computers. New ways to screw things up.
I attended a talk this evening at Christian Michel's about robots. The point was made the robot cars probably will be safer, but every once in a Blue Moon, there will be a truly spectacular disaster, of a sort impossible to perpetrate with old school cars.
Here is another way I might get those high up views of London that I am always searching for:
DPReview review here:
In my own experiences, aerial shoots have proven difficult to pull off. The window of shooting time was limited, the cabin was cramped, and the first time I ever stuck my camera out the window, the lens flew off and I miraculously caught it in mid-air. It was also roughly $250 for an hour.
But within the past couple of years, aerial photographers have been introduced to a burgeoning market rife with little flying machines that don't require passengers, don't need fuel to operate, and can fit inside a cubic foot. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the era of user-operated photography drones is upon us, and it's already kicking into warp speed.
I'm guessing that the technology of it would be beyond me, and the legality of it a minefield.
This funny letter posting got me googling for Viz, which has the best letters page bar none. I found a clutch of Viz epistolatory masterpieces here, of which this is my favourite:
What is it with vegetarians and their veggie sausages and burgers? I'm a meat eater, but I don't go around making carrots and sprouts out of beef.
This is also a good one:
I work in a call centre in Norwich and we've just been told our jobs are moving to India. I'm so excited! I've always wanted to visit India and with the salary they pay me I'll be able to live like a Maharaja over there. Well done Aviva, keep up the good work.
Interesting piece about the rise and fall and rise of Viz, here.
Spent this evening (a) continuing to be ill (thanks for the kind comments), (b) reading a book, because (c) Godot was being built, again, in my kitchen.
This is being posted with Dawkins, because Godot is now not working. For the last fortnight Godot has been working, but not properly.
As for Godot working, properly, up to speed, all bells ringing, all whistles whistling, well, you know the answer to that.
I am still waiting.
LATER, The Guru photos progress:
Digital photography has, I believe, made a huge contribution not only to fun, but to the economy. So much of work is keeping track of what work you have done, and digital photography makes this far easier.
I am rather ill, so will be brief.
I have opened a Bald Blokes Taking Photos photo file. So far, my favourite bald bloke taking a photo photo is this one, taken in July of this year:
I like (a) the Shard in his picture. There are other photos in this file of equally good bald blokes, and some of them have come out even better, with more detail. But you can't tell from the photo what they're photoing, which I rate a drawback.
And I like (b) the amazing sort of horizontal rift valley at the back of his head, that many bald blokes have (some of them more than one).
Enjoy. For me, it's back to being ill.
It's that time of the year when I go into one of my local supermarkets and immediately start taking photos, like that, or like this:
Yes it's Halloween. And the shops, in this case Sainsbury's, are full of Halloween crap. And I photo it. I wouldn't buy any of it. Oh no. I am far above that sort of thing. But, I photo it.
Except, how about these rather cute buckets? Just the thing for my Last Friday of the Month meetings, to put crappy food in:
Only 50p per bucket! I got two. And I just might go back for more.
Not that. I wouldn't want one of them. That's my picture of Sainsbury's, having the last laugh.
A few days ago I purchased a small loaf of sliced bread of my favourite sort, namely Hovis Original Wheatgerm. And I found something rather strange about it:
Not all the slices were like this, but most of them were.
I'm guessing that what happened here was that part of the previous loaf inside whatever space this loaf was cooked in got left inside, and hence incorporated into the next loaf, my loaf. And, it would appear, it got cooked twice, or at least rather more than the rest of the loaf, and before the rest of the loaf was inserted. And then everything sliced and sold to a supermarket, and bought by me, just as if nothing odd had happened at all.
I happily ate the resulting hybrid loaf, which seemed fine, even if the darker bits were a bit drier. This is not a complaint. If Hovis want to send me more sliced bread, they are welcome, but that is not my purpose with this posting. I'm just trying to entertain, with an oddity. Because, odd, don't you think? Never seen that before.
On a slight tangent, I believe that I am becoming a better photographer with the passing of the years. By this I do not mean that I am getting technically any cleverer, although mercifully my cameras are. What I mean is that now, I realise that this is the kind of thing that needs to be photographed, before it is merely consumed. A few years ago, I might have eaten this, and then only later realised that I would have liked a photo of it.
Just to emphasise that my improvement as a photographer still has some way to go, I vaguely recall trying not to get any shadows in this photo. But, if I was so trying, I failed. You can make out the shadow of my photoing finger, towards the right. Apologies for that. You get what you pay for here.
When someone shows the world a picture like this …:
… I'm like, as the younger element now puts it, yeah yeah.
But when a newspaper, the kind they still print on paper, reports that they are about to sell bits of it, then that, I say to myself, is actual news. They're actually going to build this bizarre Thing. Next to Battersea Power Station.
And by selling the flats in advance, I guess they are also crowdfunding it. Interesting trend, that, I think.
Expect (although I promise nothing) more pictures from me as it takes shape. And that is quite some shape, at any rate in the pictures.
Here is what the architecture of Tausendsassa Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser looks like:
Often cited for his colorful and curvilinear forms, his name translates to "Multi-Talented Peace-Filled Rainy Day Dark-Colored Hundred Waters." In everything from his name to his unusual ideas put forth in manifestos, it is immediately evident that Hundertwasser was no ordinary architect.
Looks to me a lot like a beefed up version of Teletubbies architecture. Did they have that show in Germany? Yes. (This is not the first time the Teletubbies have been hailed as architectural pioneers.) I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I am just, as they say, saying.
I have already quoted a couple of interesting bits from Bill Bryson's excellent book, At Home. I have now finished reading this, but just before I did, I encountered some interesting stuff about paint (pp. 453-5):
When paints became popular, people wanted them to be as vivid as they could possibly be made. The restrained colours that we associate with the Georgian period in Britain, or Colonial period in America, are a consequence of fading, not decorative restraint. In 1979, when Mount Vernon began a programme of repainting the interiors in faithful colours, 'people came and just yelled at us', Dennis Pogue, the curator, told me with a grin when I visited. 'They told us we were making Mount Vernon garish. They were right - we were. But that's just because that's the way it was. It was hard for a lot of people to accept that what we were doing was faithful restoration.
'Even now paint charts for Colonial-style paints virtually always show the colours from the period as muted. In fact, colours were actually nearly always quite deep and sometimes even startling. The richer a colour you could get, the more you tended to be admired. For one thing, rich colours generally denoted expense, since you needed a lot of pigment to make them. Also, you need to remember that often these colours were seen by candlelight, so they needed to be more forceful to have any kind of impact in muted light.'
The effect is now repeated at Monticello, where several of the rooms are of the most vivid yellows and greens. Suddenly George Washington and Thomas Jefferson come across as having the decorative instincts of hippies. In fact, however, compared with what followed they were exceedingly restrained.
When the first ready-mixed paints came on to the market in the second half of the nineteenth century, people slapped them on with something like wild abandon. It became fashionable not just to have powerfully bright colours in the home, but to have as many as seven or eight colours in a single room.
If we looked closely, however, we would be surprised to note that two very basic colours didn't exist at all in Mr Marsham's day: a good white and a good black. The brightest white available was a rather dull off-white, and although whites improved through the nineteenth century, it wasn't until the 1940s, with the addition of titanium dioxide to paints, that really strong, lasting whites became available. The absence of a good white paint would have been doubly noticeable in early New England, for the Puritans not only had no white paint but didn't believe in painting anyway. (They thought it was showy.) So all those gleaming white churches we associate with New England towns are in fact a comparatively recent phenomenon.
Also missing from the painter's palette was a strong black. Permanent black paint, distilled from tar and pitch, wasn't popularly available until the late nineteenth century. So all the glossy black front doors, railings, gates, lampposts, gutters, downpipes and other fittings that are such an elemental feature of London's streets today are actually quite recent. If we were to be thrust back intime to Dickens's London, one of the most startling differences to greet us would be the absence of black painted surfaces. In the time of Dickens, almost all ironwork was green, light blue or dull grey.
Famously, the rise of the Modern Movement in Architecture was triggered by, among many other things, a revulsion against the excesses of Victorian-era decoration, especially architectural decoration. Decoration became mechanised, and thus both much more common and much less meaningful. What did all this mechanised decoration prove, what did it mean, when you could thrash it out with no more difficulty than you could erect a plain wall?
What the above Bryson quote strongly suggests, at any rate to me, is that something rather similar happened with colour.
Why is the overwhelming atmosphere of Modernist architecture and architectural propaganda so very monochrome, still. Part of the answer is that it was only recently learned how to do monochrome. Monochrome looked modern, from about 1900-ish onwards, because it was modern. Monochrome was the latest thing. Colour, meanwhile, had become much cheaper and had been used with garish nouveau riche excess, and there was a reaction to that also, just as there was to excessive decoration.
Indeed. You don't see this kind of thing every day:
But I did. Today.
As a general rule, I don't advise combining ice cream with photography. Do one or the other. That is the rule I recommend. But these guys were doing an excellent job of merging these two things, and they weren't just eating their ice creams and doing photography. They were photoing their ice creams.
I congratulated them for the excellence of their photographic imagination, and they were really pleased to hear this. I asked if I could photo them. Yes, they replied. And when I said "photo", I meant, as they surely understood, photo them and put pictures of them up at my blog:
I also took lots photos of a demo outside Parliament by Kurds, demanding help from Britain in their battles against ISIS. Maybe (I promise nothing) I'll put some of those snaps either here or on Samizdata, perhaps tomorrow.
The lion statues in Tragalgar Square are famous, and they deserve to be. But there is another lion statue in London that I am also fond of, namely the one on the far side of Westminster Bridge from the Houses of Parliament. I like, when I walk along beside the river next to St Thomas' Hospital, to photo it lined up with the Wheel.
Here is how it looked, on the day I also took these photos, and these, and these:
I really liked this when I saw it. You wouldn't want a guide lion, but, that's the joke.
And this other guy liked it too:
I couldn't wait for Friday to come round so I could show these snaps to you people. Inconveniently, I took them on a Saturday.
The BBC have been doing cats, in a three part documentary, and the papers are all over it.
It turns out that with us, cats are cats. Then they go outdoors and become lions. They get on better with us than they do with each other. They have evolved to manipulate us into feeding and sheltering them.
With the arrival of the internet, the evolution of cats has entered a new and more intense phase.
LATER: Although guide lions probably wouldn't work, here's a 2012 story about a guide cat, who guides a dog.
SUNDAY: I was back there yesterday, and that bit of yellow writing wasn't there when I first photoed this guide dog lion:
And they have also sorted out that strap around the lion's front.
More about what is going on here, here.
Dezeen has pretend-photos today of London's soon-to-be-unleashed new driverless tube trains. As I write this, they're all over the TV news.
Their pictures are spooky, being mostly of the black and mysterious fronts of the trains:
The BBC reports that the Train Driving Union is angry. I'm sure it is. I guess it will refuse to drive these driverless trains.
Seriously, they're on a hiding to nothing. The D(ocklands) L(ight) R(ailway) already has driverless trains and having them on the tube is the obvious next step. It's like they said when the atom bomb was first used in anger. The only important secret, said somebody clever and famous, is now public knowledge. It works.
The picture that interested me rather more was this one (which I found earlier today at the Evening Standard):
This is a trend that has been growing and growing. Instead of each carriage being a separate room, the whole train is now one huge elongated room. The Tube already has trains like this, but they are just a bit clunky at the joins. These new trains, judging by that picture, will accomplish this effect with unprecedented elegance and panache, or so it looks to me. You almost can't seen the join.
I guess one good consequence of this is that if one part of this single room is extremely crowded, such a crowd is able to spread itself out, towards the not so crowded parts of the room.
That might be the good news. But the other day, I found myself doing something really rather annoying to my fellow passengers, on one of these new, single room trains. I was in a big hurry, and had just managed to catch the train I found myself on. But, I happened to know that, in order to minimise the time of my journey, I needed to be at the other end of the train. So, crowded though the train was, I barged my way through it, as politely as I could but still rather disruptively, thereby getting a lot nearer to where I knew the exit was at my destination station.
Is this a Thing now, I wonder?
I also wonder what other effects there will be of these new and improved connections between tube carriages. What effect, for instance, will this have on busking?


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The hotel is a dump.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Hotel Review Victoria Station Hotel"
The location was great, because it was a 5 minute walk from Victoria Station. UI was in Room 14, which looked out onto a back alley. The windows opened which I liked, for some fresh air. The free wireless worked perfectly in that room. I was only there for 1 night, but I had to carry all my valuable around London with me, which was not convenient. The […] TV did not work. The front desk staff tried to be helpful. I got to the hotel at 9am and my check in time was 2pm. They had a room cleaned for me within 10 minutes and let me check in, which I thought was very nice. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
"no, thanks"
carpet is dirty and moulded. Windwos tiny and with mould. bathroom: shower ok, but basin was extrem ugly.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"I thought I was back in College"
My stay was comical... only needing the room to sleep for a few hours it was no big deal - however - Broken shower door, no hot water, a room that was last updated in the 1970's (maybe 60's) and the fact that my room was down the street from the primary hotel - very odd indeed. I would not stay here again but for any poor fellow backpacking across Europe […] looking for a 1-star hotel that is economical - I might consider it. Hotels.com was 25 pounds cheaper than walking in off the street. The location is excellent - theaters - food - Victoria Station. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"A good place."
The hotel itself doesn't look much, but it's location is perfect for anyone that wants to tour London, it is places within a couple of minutes walk from Victoria station and the underground and there a lot of bus's in the same area. Also a lot of quick places to grab food for the traveler. The Bedroom is very basic but comfortable, the fan works as […] well as any air conditioning, though choosing between the fan and Tv can be a cause a little bit of argument. They provide a fridge in the bedroom which we found very useful to keep your own milk and drinks and if we had been staying longer probably some snacks. The breakfast we decided against getting due to personal preferences. The staff where nice and competent when we had to deal with them, but we didn't have much to deal with them. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Nice and clean"
A nice and clean hotel. Good value for the price !!!Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Small hotel in centre if London."
Staff very helpful but room very small, little or no storage space, narrow staircase, shower room recently upgraded. Smell in hallways. However, as we were using it as a base for moving around London for only three days or so it worked but wouldn't go back.Genuine Expedia guest review
"Victoria Station Hotel"
The stay was adequate for one night but I don't think I would stay longer for the room was quite cramped. As we checked in there was an unpleasant smell as we were walking up the stairs, we wonder if they have a problem with the drains. At least the smell didn't permeate the room. Most importantly the bed had nice clean fresh sheets and the bathroom […] was nice and clean. The breakfast was okay. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
"Convenient to Victoria Station"
i expect more than a choice between a bedroom with no window and one that is extfremely noisy on road front without sufficient glazingGenuine Expedia guest review
"Never go again"
Terrible breakfast, low services, room is unclean.Genuine Expedia guest review
"disgusting rat hole"
if i had another option that night i would have gone elsewhere and forfeited my payment. I checked in around midnight and there was no hotel at the time. the place is not as night as a good hostel.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Disappointed hotel quality"
The hotel room was not clean, bathroom lights did not work, toilet did not flush and the floor in my room was not even. The bed was not too bad but was not too sure whether it was clean or not. For that price, I did expect to have a better room - better standard.Genuine Expedia guest review
"Great hotel for Victoria Station"
The location is perfect for Victoria Station. The hotel is a bit run down but the room was actually spot on and very clean. Breakfast was a bit basic but would recommend this hotel to friendsGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Nice staff"
The staff in the reception was nice. However, the rooms where small and bed hard. Had to climb all the way to the top of the hotel with a heavy suitcase and the stairs was narrow and step.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Great staff, shame about the room"
Spotlessly clean bathroom but had some mysterious "stuff" on my duvet cover so I had to take it off. There was also a blocked drain smell coming up through the stairway which I had to block out with pillows so I recommend checking that is sorted before staying here.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Umhygenic Fleapit"
This hotel was unhygenic. There was mold in the rooms, unclean and very poor standard. The lock on the bedroom door did not work, I was concerned about my safety as a result. I will not be staying in this hotel again. Words fail me at how much I did not enjoy my stay.Genuine Expedia guest review
Does what it says on the tin, very quiet and comfortable, overpriced but that's LondonGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Close to theatre"
As a couple of students looking for a budget hotel next to the Apollo theatre it was convenient location wise. And its right near the train station and a Weatherspoons across the road. The rooms were basic but clean and the staff were polite and help full.Genuine Expedia guest review
"Budget hotel near Victoria Station"
Booked for one night. Victoria Station Hotel is a cheap budget hotel very close to the station. The room was small, but had a kitchenette area and bathroom. It was clean although the decoration is a bit tired. Continental Breakfast is included; bread rolls; jams; ham; etcGenuine Expedia guest review
"a place to rest ones head"
a bit overpriced for what it isGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Avoid this hotel!"
The reception desk had peeling veneer on its surface and the dining area next to it looked grubby. The corridors had an over powering stench of mildew. The room had no curtains and one window had been replaced and provided a clear view to the street - no privacy. There was no towels, soap or even toilet paper provided in the room. The bathroom floor […] was dirty. While the sheets were clean, the duvet cover was not. The room door did not fit properly letting in lots of light around its edges which was disturbing considering you could reach the door from the bed. 3 star hotel - you're having a laugh! Little better than a flop house! I didn't stay for breakfast. If the cleanliness of the rest of the hotel was anything to go by I suspect that that I may have caught something if I had eaten there. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
"Peaceful at the heart of Victoria"
Considering this hotel is remarkably close to Victoria station, the room was very quiet and the bed very comfortable. The shower was small and unfortunately, the shower head was broken but we were still able to shower. For the price we paid, this was a great value room although we missed breakfast due to it finishing a little earlier than we would have […] liked. A great find though. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
No running water in the shower. No hot water. White dust all over the room.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Broken curtain, Tiny TV, Close to station"
This hotel was not to close to the station as to be too loud to sleep, but it was close enough for convenience. The Sat Nav on my phone took me to the back of the hotel to start off with which was a little creepy, but I soon found my way. Being a small hotel the staff knew who I was already when I arrived. The hotel had a strange layout, but my room […] was an okay size (for London), the bed was comfortable and it had an en-suite. The TV within the room however was really small & the curtain broke off the rail when I attempted to shut it to block out the light pollution. The breakfast was minimal but it suited me just fine, not a lot of hot choices, mainly cereal and toast with some yoghurts. Overall, probably wouldn't stop again, would look at other hotels in the area, but it served its purpose well. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
Do not stay here if you're expecting any degree of luxury (or even curtains that meet in the middle)!Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Good location..."
I chose this for the low price in the location, a very last minute booking. Good location, opposite 'Wicked' show just around the corner from Victoria station. Just a B&B though, so need to go exploring to find dinner. A Wetherspoons is opposite if you do not want to go far, or jump on the underground to quickly get to Leicester Sq/Covent Garden for […] more choice. Room small, basic and smelled of stale smoke. Bathroom new and clean. Lots of narrow stairs to get to top floor where my room was. Note that the sign outside says Station Hotel, not Victoria Station Hotel. Read moreGenuine Expedia guest review
"good value for money"
clean rooms--basic facilities- convenient location- 2.5 is about rightGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Sad stay"
Apart from the location which as good, we felt most other things did not go well, to list just a few problems with the room, no handle to open close window with cracked glass, screws coming out and missing from room door, shower water did not drain away and unable to shower (too much trouble to try and get sorted late at night), when the curtain was […] opened it came off the end of the rail!! I could go on. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Terrible expirience"
Stayed in this hotel for just one night but it was enough. Went to the original hotel which was the Victoria when i went up in the room I found people there. Went down to reception and they just showed me the hotel opposite, which I believe it is under the same management. The room was dirty, unpleasant, stains in the basin, missing bulbs, mirror not […] hanged to the wall, broken shower and it keeps on going!! I suggest you avoid such hotel as it was a nightmare for myself!! Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Slightly better than sleeping rough"
Room was by reception. It contained a fire escape door, spray painted white, leading to a busy road on Victoria. The furniture was dirty and worn, as are the walls, and the noise was constant. Even with beer inside me and 2 pillows on my head, I couldn't sleep!!! Do not stay here. There are cheaper hostels and better hotels!!!Genuine Hotels.com guest review
Måtte bytte hotell ankomstkvelden. Det var uhygienisk, samt at det var masse vegglus. Så det først da vi skulle legge oss; sengen var full av lus.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Ok til prisen"
For en enkelt overnatning var hotellet ok. Meget småt og en kedelig lugt af fugt på gangen. Værelset var ok til prisen, ingen luksus men en rigtig god seng og eget badeværelse. Kunne godt booke det igen for en enkelt overnatning men ikke for en hel ferie.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
Lite men helt greit hotell...Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Fint til kortere ophold"
Hvis du bare skal bruge et sted at sove i London, er dette en fin løsning. Vi havde 4 overnatninger på Victoria Station hotel, og har været udmærket tilfredse med opholdet. Værelset var meget lille og der var kun lige plads til at gå rundt om sengen. Badeværelset var til gengæld i en god størrelse og pænt og rent. Hotellet trænger lidt til en kærlig […] hånd, specielt på fællesarealerne. Der er gratis internetadgang i receptionen. Morgenmaden er tag-selv og består af boller og toastbrød med marmelade eller honning eller Corn Flakes med mælk, derudover kan man få en lille muffin. Der er Juice, te og Kaffe ad libitum. Man kan spise sig mæt, men efter 4 dage, begynder maden at blive ret kedelig og ensformigt. De ansatte er søde og rare, og da vi havde lidt problemer med et afløb, var det ordnet da vi kom tilbage senere samme dag. Værelset bliver gjort rent, og der bliver skiftet sengetøj og håndklæder dagligt. Alt i alt er det fint til et kortere ophold, hvor man bare skal have et sted at sove, men hvis de gad at opgradere hotellet lidt, så kunne det blive et rigtigt fint sted. Beliggenheden er i top Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Hyvä sijainti / Ei luksusta ."
Sopii pikavisiitteihin sijaintinsa vuoksi , mutta hieman meluisalla paikalla ja vaatimaton varustus . Aamiainen tyypillinen englantilainen .Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"God beliggenhed og flinke personaler."
Vi var 2 voksne med vores barnebar på 14 år i London. Vi var tilfredse med hotellets beliggenhed og det meget flinke personale. Morgenmaden lidt kedelig og det var ikke altid der var pladser ved morgenmaden. Hotellet bar præg af ar det var brugt, men der var rent. Alt i alt tilfreds.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Skittent og luktet vondt!"
Vi kom før rommet var klart å la bagasjen på bagasjerommet som stinket mugg. Da vi kom tilbake etter noen timer luktet rommet spy og lukten hadde smittet over på bagasjen. Vannet i dusjen skiftet mellom iskaldt og brennhett. Rommene var veldig slitt og sengeteppet i den ene sengen var ikke rent. Kan ikke si noe om kvaliteten på service da vi kun var […] der noen timer mens vi ventet på å reise til flyplassen. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Småt, men ok."
Meget slidt hotel. Trænger til en opdatering. Meget småt, men pænt og rent. Fantastisk beliggenhed.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
L'hôtel se trouve à proximité de Buckingham Palace et donne donc accès facilement à tous les principaux sites touristiques. La station Victoria est juste à côté. La chambre est confortable mais reste sommaire (on en demande pas plus lorsque l'on fait un voyage touristique : on ne vient pas à Londres pour rester dans sa chambre). L'hôtel donne sur un […] grand boulevard donc un peu bruyant. Petit-déjeuner simple mais efficace ! Pour le prix je n'en demandais pas plus ;) Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Topp shoppinghotell for venninner/kjæreste"
Vi hadde rom nr 9, et lite rom men det var rent og nyoppusset. Topp standard med vannkoker og kaffe/te på rommet. Nye håndklær og sengetøy hver dag. Rent og pent. Gratis wifi. Liten grei frokost. Knutepunkt med banen Victoria, kort vei til alt!Genuine Hotels.com guest review
Bra läge. Rummen var varma och mycket mindre än vad bilderna säger. Frukosten var inte mycket att hänga i granen. Men, duger helt klart att sova i!Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Utmärkt läge"
Hotellet ligger riktigt nära Victoria Station vilket höjer betyget för hotellet. Däremot så är rummen så (som i England) och vi råkade få ett rum i en annan byggnad till en början men personalen bytte rum efter tillsägelse. Frukosten är enkel, kokta ägg, rostat bröd, yoghurt, juice & kaffe och muffins. Personalen var trevlig och tillmötesgående.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Bra läge men..."
Hotellet är i stort behov av renovering. Gammalt och nytt blandat, mest gammalt. Däremot var det rent och sängarna ok. Frukosten kunde varit bättre. Vi åt frukost på en resturang rakt över gatan vilket var bättre. Ok att stanna några nätter eftersom man ändå ej är speciellt mycket på hotellet. Läget är mycket centralt.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Bra läge"
Det var jobbigt med alla trappor. Vi bodde högst upp. trångt och ingen hiss. Ej att rekommendera till äldre människor.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Terrible smell"
Hotel is central but on a very busy road. We couldn't close the windows because the hotel had lost the keys to the window locks so it was very noisy. The room was quite clean but the shower head was broken. The smell in the corridor was awful and the breakfast room was very small. The breakfast was very basic. The hotel staff kept promising to fix the […] window locks but nothing ever happened! Would definitely not stay there again. Read moreGenuine Hotels.com guest review
"Centralt beliggende"
Noget slidt og trænger til vedligeholdelse, men hvis man går efter beliggenheden, som er super, og bare en seng at sove i er det udemærket. Morgenmadsbuffet ok udvalg. Kun wifi i receptionen som var separat bygning.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Excelente situación, trato ok"
Instalaciones viejas, con chinches en la cama, la situación del hotel es magníficaGenuine Expedia guest review
"Nice staff and close to Big Ben and the tube"
The hotel is very claustrophobic but clean with nice staff. The breakfast is very poor and it ends to early. Its a good hotel if you just want to sleep. Internet is only available at the reception but it works good.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Excelente ubicación"
Excelente ubicación, desayuno y WIFI incluídos. Trato amable de su personal.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
"Buget med bra läge"
Budgethotell nära Victoria Station. Enkel "bed and breakfast" standard. Enklast tänkbara frukost och små rum med störande gata utanför. Tyvärr ingen hiss vilket gör rummen svårtillgängliga. Helt och rent dock och hyffsat trevlig personal.Genuine Hotels.com guest review
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The Florida Public Service Commission and Progress Energy Florida have sealed a deal that would freeze the utility customers' base rates until the end of 2012.
The halt to any potential hikes to base rates will go into effect in about a week, when the PSC makes its final order.
The agreement came after the PSC earlier this year turned down the utility's request for a $500 million rate hike. Following that decision, the utility also complained that the PSC had made some accounting errors as part of a portion of the denial and should review its work.
But Progress spokeswoman Suzanne Grant said the company agreed to freeze base rates for now in an effort to do what was best for all its customers in the light of the difficult economic times people were experiencing.
The utility has more than 1.6 million electric customers throughout Florida and about 65,000 in Marion County. Currently, residential customers pay $48.58 per 1,000 kilowatt-hours as part of their monthly base rate.
The 1,000 kilowatt-hours is a standard the utility industry uses to measure average household energy use, although most homes use more. The $48.58 base rate also doesn't include such costs as fuel or money set aside for future nuclear plant construction, which Progress Energy has proposed in Levy County.
In addition to the base rate freeze, the deal between the state agency and Progress Energy requires the utility to withdraw its petition for the PSC to reconsider its rate decision from earlier this year and its request for the state agency to reconsider its accounting calculations.
However, if the utility's return on equity falls below 9.5 percent before Dec. 31, the company can ask for a rate adjustment to compensate for the loss.
The company also will be allowed to reduce its depreciation reserves by as much $150 million in 2010, as much as $250 million in 2011 and the remaining balance during 2012.
The reduction in the company's depression reserves could appear as a short-term financial boost in earnings to potential investors.
The deal between the two also allows for the recovery of storm damage costs and storm damage reserve replenishment on an interim basis 60 days following the filing of a petition.
The limit would be $4 per 1,000 kilowatt-hours monthly for residential customers.
Although the agreement will keep base rates the same, fuel costs, for which customers are billed separately, could fluctuate.
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Meanwhile, BlueChip Energy, a solar power/manufacturing company, has started construction of a solar farm as part of an agreement with Progress Energy to sell the utility energy.
The Lake Mary-based company will sell as much as 10 megawatt-hours of power to Progress Energy, enough to power 1,100 homes.
The plant will include solar panels the company manufactures and some it buys from other facilities. The panels will be placed on the factory's roof and spread throughout a 24-acre area the company owns, said Lawrence Hefler, corporate director.
The agreement is part of Progress Energy's agreement with Florida regulators to increase its alternative energy.
The utility has agreements with two such solar power providers, but Grant said it has yet to get any power from the other provider.
BlueChip employs 35 people and makes and installs solar panels for residential and commercial use.
Hefler said the plant should be completed and operational by the end of the year.
The company predicts it will hire about 100 people to build the facility.
Hefler would not say how much the plant will cost, other than to say many millions of dollars and potentially as much as $50 million.
Hefler said people are being much more aware of alternative energy sources, such as solar and wind, and unfortunately, oil accidents such as the one in the Gulf of Mexico are making people reconsider the risks with those kinds of fuels.
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Sea otters (Enhydra lutris), found along the Pacific coasts of North America and Northeast Asia, are one of more than 20 types of animals that make their home near the shore affected by the March 1989 oil spill. The disaster occurred in prime sea otter habitat, according to the USGS study. The oil "drastically reduces" the ability of the otters' fur to provide insulation, the report said.
A sea otter, an animal found along the Pacific coasts of North American and Northeast Asia, in kelp. (Benjamin Weitzman, U.S. Geological Survey)
It is estimated that several thousand sea otters perished because of the spill, the USGS said in a statement, and subsequent monitoring showed that the animals were slow to recover, likely because oil lingering in their environment continued to affect them.
"Although recovery timelines varied widely among species, our work shows that recovery of species vulnerable to long-term effects of oil spills can take decades," said lead author of the study, Brenda Ballachey, a USGS research biologist.
Researchers used a variety of methods to gauge how sea otters are fairing today. The scientists conducted aerial surveys that counted the animals' numbers, examined causes of sea otter deaths and looked at gene expression in sea otters to check for influence from oil exposure. All of these measures pointed to shifts back to pre-spill levels.
The aerial surveys found numbers of sea otters comparable to those seen before the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef, and the gene expression data suggested a reduction in oil exposure since 2008. However, another recent study involving USGS scientists found protected pockets of oil that had been virtually unchanged since the spill.
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Baltimore asks Maryland to consider building new soccer stadium for D.C. United
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Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon has written a letter to the Maryland Stadium Authority asking the agency to study the possibility of building a new soccer stadium for Major League Soccer's D.C. United.
The letter, dated Sept. 30, asks the stadium authority to focus on building the stadium as part of a green mixed-use project with access to light rail, Interstate 95, Baltimore-Washington Parkway and the Camden Yards sports complex.
Dixon cites developer Patrick Turner's 42-acre waterfront Westport project as meeting those standards. Turner said through a spokeswoman Tuesday he was aware of the letter and will wait for the stadium authority's study to play out before deciding if it would be the best fit the Southwest Baltimore project.
Demaune A. Millard, Dixon's chief of staff, and a stadium authority board member, said in an interview that the stadium could be between 17,000 and 20,000 seats.
The letter, which was written months after negotiations for a new $200 million stadium broke down between D.C. United and Prince George's County, also says the stadium could be used for lacrosse and other events.
The city became warm to the idea after the 71,000-seat M&T Bank Stadium hosted a sold out soccer friendly in July between A.C. Milan and Chelsea, Millard said.
"There was a significant amount of momentum built from that game," he said, noting D.C. United's interest in building a new stadium. "We're making sure we're not leaving any stone unturned."
Millard said the city has not had any discussions with the United. A feasibility study for a Prince George's stadium found it would generate between $65 million and $80 million a year in economic impact.
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Cinematheque . Film Schedule . The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
United States | 1962 | John Ford
John Wayne, James Stewart, and Lee Marvin star in this great John Ford western—a poignant, melancholy account of the taming of the Old West. The movie revolves around three men: a tenderfoot Eastern lawyer (Stewart), an outlaw who terrorizes him (Marvin), and a grizzled, gun-toting rancher who befriends him (Wayne). With Vera Miles, John Carradine, Woody Strode, Lee Van Cleef, et al. The film will be introduced on Friday night by Cleveland Institute of Art President Grafton Nunes, a film scholar and John Ford expert who regards this as his favorite Ford film.
123 min. 35mm. 50th Anniversary! Introduction by Grafton Nunes on Friday!
at the Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106
Become a Cinematheque member and save off regular admission prices for one full year!
General Admission: $9
Member: $7 (includes CIA I.D. holders)
Age 25 & under: $7 (proof of age required)
*Additional film on the same day: $7